鼎铛玉石 — Chinese idiom
鼎铛玉石
dǐng chēng yù shí
Traditional: 鼎鐺玉石
Meaning
- lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone ; fig. a waste of precious material
- casting pearls before swine
Character by character
- 鼎dǐnglarge, three-legged bronze cauldron
- 铛chēngfrying pan; warming vessel
- 玉yùjade, gem, precious stone
- 石shístone, rock, mineral
Idioms sharing a character
- 一言九鼎 yī yán jiǔ dǐng
- 三足鼎立 sān zú dǐng lì
- 人声鼎沸 rén shēng dǐng fèi
- 问鼎中原 wèn dǐng Zhōng yuán
- 问鼎轻重 wèn dǐng qīng zhòng
- 染指于鼎 rǎn zhǐ yú dǐng
- 民怨鼎沸 mín yuàn dǐng fèi
- 革故鼎新 gé gù dǐng xīn
- 锒铛入狱 láng dāng rù yù
- 不吝珠玉 bù lìn zhū yù
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